I spent three years working on a documentary for PBS [about Memphis's housing projects] looking at the nexus of poverty, drugs, crime, and violence [...] making this film is what changed my politics from liberal to conservative. I found it impossible to maintain faith in Great Society liberalism after seeing what it looks like in practice. Good intentions that create perverse incentives. Just devastating.
Rufo gets too much flack from some conservatives for being naive with regards to classical liberalism being the solution but he has been an effective warrior for fighting against the left's CRT push.
I have worked in local government for the better part of a decade, and it's what killed my egalitarianism. I used to think that people were people... nope.
The Welfare State did more damage to blacks than Slavery ever could. It's not even close. It's not even arguable.
And to be clear, Slavery tried to destroy family units. That was an objective.
This isn't the only time we've seen this. The Reservations are arguably worse for Indians than the Wild West was, massacres and all. Pre-Colonial and Colonial Africa wasn't nearly as bad as the 2nd Congalese War which caused the Rawandan Genocide and embroiled the whole continent into a series of Socialist wars, genocides, and famines. The war itself, in combat, seems to have killed over a million people, but the secondary deaths are even worse. Even if we compare East and West Germany, the East is recovering well from decades of Communism (as bad as it was). West Germany has not recovered from Fabian Socialism and is desperately trying to kill itself. In the long term, a Communist occupation can be easily overthrown, and even if it kills people, if that's all it does, you can recover. Perverting the incentives of people, demoralizing them, and then convincing them to enslave themselves to the power structure is far more destructive.
the 2nd Congalese War which caused the Rawandan Genocide
It was the other way round, the Rwandan war caused the war in Congo when the victorious Tutsi rebels (who had invaded from Uganda in first place) invaded the eastern Congo and armed the local Tutsi rebels in order to slaughter the masses of Hutu refugees from Rwanda and the local Hutus and others (eat all Pygmies!) and more importantly take over the rare metal deposits. Various other countries then joined in invading and/or organizing their own proxy rebel armies ("Africa's World War") to plunder the riches in the soil in both Congolese wars and the conflict still continues quietly.
from Christoper Rufo (emphasis mine):
I have not watched the movie yet, but I plan to.
Rufo gets too much flack from some conservatives for being naive with regards to classical liberalism being the solution but he has been an effective warrior for fighting against the left's CRT push.
I have worked in local government for the better part of a decade, and it's what killed my egalitarianism. I used to think that people were people... nope.
I would also recommend everyone reads this: https://www.amren.com/features/2014/05/confessions-of-a-public-defender/
And other first-person accounts on the site.
The Welfare State did more damage to blacks than Slavery ever could. It's not even close. It's not even arguable.
And to be clear, Slavery tried to destroy family units. That was an objective.
This isn't the only time we've seen this. The Reservations are arguably worse for Indians than the Wild West was, massacres and all. Pre-Colonial and Colonial Africa wasn't nearly as bad as the 2nd Congalese War which caused the Rawandan Genocide and embroiled the whole continent into a series of Socialist wars, genocides, and famines. The war itself, in combat, seems to have killed over a million people, but the secondary deaths are even worse. Even if we compare East and West Germany, the East is recovering well from decades of Communism (as bad as it was). West Germany has not recovered from Fabian Socialism and is desperately trying to kill itself. In the long term, a Communist occupation can be easily overthrown, and even if it kills people, if that's all it does, you can recover. Perverting the incentives of people, demoralizing them, and then convincing them to enslave themselves to the power structure is far more destructive.
It was the other way round, the Rwandan war caused the war in Congo when the victorious Tutsi rebels (who had invaded from Uganda in first place) invaded the eastern Congo and armed the local Tutsi rebels in order to slaughter the masses of Hutu refugees from Rwanda and the local Hutus and others (eat all Pygmies!) and more importantly take over the rare metal deposits. Various other countries then joined in invading and/or organizing their own proxy rebel armies ("Africa's World War") to plunder the riches in the soil in both Congolese wars and the conflict still continues quietly.
I don't think that's right. I'm pretty sure the 2nd Congo War happened started after the Rawandan Genocide.
That's certainly a major part of it--the pill and legal abortion on demand helped the destruction immensely.